By Barbara Olejnik
Poultry Times Staff
bolejnik@poultrytimes.com
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — China is continuing to battle its fifth and largest wave of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza, which has killed 100 people since October 2016, when latest outbreak began.
Since the beginning of this latest outbreak, China has reported at least human 425 cases of the virus — 67 of them in the Feb. 12-18 period.
Most of the cases are concentrated at live poultry markets, not at chicken farms, in the south and on the eastern seaboard.
The main reasons for this concentration are the weather. . .
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